177 relations: Alluvium, Anatidae, Anawrahta Bridge, Andaman Sea, Arakan Mountains, Asia World, Asian elephant, Śakra (Buddhism), Bagan, Bangladesh, Bay of Bengal, Bengal tiger, Bhamo, Biodiversity hotspot, Bird migration, British Empire, Brown-headed gull, Burmese Coast mangroves, Burmese python, Canal, Cantilever bridge, Caspian tern, Chauk, China Power Investment Corporation, China Southern Power Grid, Chindwin River, Confluence, Crab-eating macaque, Crocodile farm, Cyprinidae, Danio htamanthinus, Dedaye, Dedaye Bridge, Defile (geography), Deva (Buddhism), Dhole, Dipterocarpus, Discharge (hydrology), Drainage basin, Ecoregion, Ecosystem, Endemism, Eurasian coot, Eurasian Plate, Euryhaline, Fault (geology), Fishing, Ganges shark, Girdling, Glacier, ..., Great cormorant, Green sea turtle, Gulf of Martaban, Hawksbill sea turtle, Hinthada, Holocene, Homalin, Humidity, Hydroelectricity, Hydrograph, Hydrology, India, Indian hog deer, Indian Ocean, Indian Plate, Indra, Inundation, Inwa, Irrawaddy Bridge, Irrawaddy Delta, Irrawaddy dolphin, Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, Irrigation, Kachin State, Kansai Electric Power Company, Katha, Myanmar, Kyangin, Kyaukmyaung (Sagaing), Lava, Leatherback sea turtle, Leopard, Lesser sand plover, Letha Taung, Limestone, Loggerhead sea turtle, Ma-ubin, Magma, Magway, Myanmar, Mali River, Mammal, Mandalay, Mandalay (poem), Mandalay Hill, Mangrove, Marsh, Maurice Kottelat, Military dictatorship, Minbu, Mingun, Mogok, Monsoon, Mu River, Myanmar, Myitkyina, Myitnge River, Myitsone Dam, N'Mai River, NASA, Nemacheilidae, New Light of Myanmar, Nyaung-U, Nyaungdon, Oak, Olive ridley sea turtle, Otter, Oxbow lake, Pakokku, Pakokku Bridge, Pali, Pantanaw, Pathein, Pegu Range, Pine, Pinophyta, Putao, Pyay, Rainforest, Rakhine State, Rapids, Ravi River, Red junglefowl, Rhododendron, Richter magnitude scale, Rudyard Kipling, Sagaing, Saltwater crocodile, Salween River, Sambar deer, Sea turtle, Sediment, Shweli River, Silt, Sittaung River, Sociology, Species description, Spot-billed pelican, Stream, Subtropics, Sven O. Kullander, Swamp, Tagaung, Mandalay, Tamanthi, Tanintharyi Region, Taping River, Tasang Dam, Teak, Temperate climate, Thailand, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, The Sydney Morning Herald, Tibet, Tillage, Tributary, Undescribed taxon, Union Solidarity and Development Association, Upper Myanmar, Valley, Volcanology, West Rapti River, Whiskered tern, Wild boar, Wood sandpiper, World War II, World Wide Fund for Nature, Yangon, Yangon River, Yenangyaung. Expand index (127 more) »
Alluvium
Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.
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Anatidae
The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.
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Anawrahta Bridge
Anawrahta Bridge is one of the bridges constructed by State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar.
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Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of the eastern Indian Ocean separated from the Bay of Bengal (to its west) by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and touching Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and the Malay Peninsula.
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Arakan Mountains
The Arakan Mountains (Arakan Range, Rakhine Range, Rakhine Yoma, Arakan Yoma, Rakhine Roma, Arakan Roma; ရခိုင်ရိုးမ) is a mountain range in western Burma (Myanmar), between the coast of Rakhine State and the Central Burma Basin, in which flows the Irrawaddy River.
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Asia World
Asia World Group (အာရှဓန ကုမ္ပဏီ) is Myanmar's largest and most diversified conglomerate, with interests in industrial development, construction, transportation, import-export, and a local supermarket chain.
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Asian elephant
The Asian elephant, or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus), is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia, from India and Nepal in the west to Borneo in the south.
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Śakra (Buddhism)
Śakra (Sanskrit: शक्र; Pali: सक्क Sakka) is the ruler of the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven according to Buddhist cosmology.
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Bagan
Bagan (formerly Pagan) is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.
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Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গোপসাগর) is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and north by India and Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India).
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Bengal tiger
The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is the most numerous tiger subspecies in Asia, and was estimated at fewer than 2,500 individuals by 2011.
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Bhamo
Bhamo (ဗန်းမော်မြို့ ban: mau mrui., also spelt Banmaw) is a city of Kachin State in the northernmost part of Myanmar, located south from the capital city of the state of Kachin (Myitkyina).
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Biodiversity hotspot
A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened with destruction.
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Bird migration
Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Brown-headed gull
The brown-headed gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) is a small gull which breeds in the high plateaus of central Asia from Tajikistan to Ordos in Inner Mongolia.
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Burmese Coast mangroves
The Burmese or Myanmar Coast mangroves are an ecoregion in Burma, Malaysia, and Thailand where there were once thick forests of mangroves but today most has been cleared, resulting in loss of habitat for wildlife.
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Burmese python
The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is one of the five largest species of snakes in the world (about the third-largest as measured either by length or weight).
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Canal
Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.
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Cantilever bridge
A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.
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Caspian tern
The Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution.
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Chauk
Chauk (ချောက်) is a town and river port in Magway Region, north-central Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River.
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China Power Investment Corporation
China Power Investment Corporation also known as CPI Group was one of the five largest state-owned electricity producers in the Mainland China.
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China Southern Power Grid
China Southern Power Grid Company Limited (CSG) is one of the two state-owned enterprises established in 2002 according to the precept to reform the power system promulgated by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the other being State Grid Corporation of China.
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Chindwin River
The Chindwin River (ချင်းတွင်းမြစ်) is a river in Burma (Myanmar), and the largest tributary of the country's chief river the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy).
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Confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel.
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Crab-eating macaque
The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), also known as the long-tailed macaque, is a cercopithecine primate native to Southeast Asia.
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Crocodile farm
A crocodile farm or alligator farm is an establishment for breeding and raising of crocodilians in order to produce crocodile and alligator meat, leather, and other goods.
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Cyprinidae
The Cyprinidae are the family of freshwater fishes, collectively called cyprinids, that includes the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives (for example, the barbs and barbels).
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Danio htamanthinus
Danio htamanthinus is a small species of ray finned freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, the carps and minnows, which was described in 2016 from small streams in the area of Htamanthi on the middle Chindwin River in Myanmar.
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Dedaye
Dedaye (ဒေးဒရဲမြို့) is a town in the Ayeyarwady Region of south-west Myanmar.
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Dedaye Bridge
Dedaye Bridge (ဒေးဒရဲတံတား), also known as the Ayeyarwady-Dedaye Bridge is a bridge linking Kungyangon Township in Yangon Division and Dedaye Township in Ayeyawady Division in southern Burma.
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Defile (geography)
In geography, a defile is a narrow pass or gorge between mountains or hills.
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Deva (Buddhism)
A deva (देव Sanskrit and Pāli, Mongolian tenger (тэнгэр)) in Buddhism is one of many different types of non-human beings who share the godlike characteristics of being more powerful, longer-lived, and, in general, much happier than humans, although the same level of veneration is not paid to them as to buddhas.
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Dhole
The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South and Southeast Asia.
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Dipterocarpus
Dipterocarpus is a genus of flowering plants and the type genus of family Dipterocarpaceae.
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Discharge (hydrology)
In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate of water that is transported through a given cross-sectional area.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Eurasian coot
The Eurasian coot (Fulica atra), also known as the common coot, is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae.
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Eurasian Plate
The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia.
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Euryhaline
Euryhaline organisms are able to adapt to a wide range of salinities.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
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Ganges shark
The Ganges shark (Glyphis gangeticus) is a critically endangered species of requiem shark found in the Ganges River (Padma River) and the Brahmaputra River of Bangladesh and India.
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Girdling
Girdling, also called ring-barking is the complete removal of a strip of bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes going into the xylem) from around the entire circumference of either a branch or trunk of a woody plant.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Great cormorant
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, the large cormorant in India and the black shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds.
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Green sea turtle
The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae.
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Gulf of Martaban
The Gulf of Martaban (မုတ္တမပင်လယ်ကွေ့) or the Gulf of Mottama is an arm of the Andaman Sea in the southern part of Burma.
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Hawksbill sea turtle
The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.
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Hinthada
Hinthada (ဟင်္သာတမြို့; formerly Henzada) is a city located on the Irrawaddy River in Ayeyarwady Region, Burma (Myanmar).
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Homalin
Homalin or Hommalinn (ဟုမ္မလင်း မြို့) is a small town in north-western Burma and capital of the Homalin Township in Hkamti District of the Sagaing Region.
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Humidity
Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Hydrograph
A hydrograph is a graph showing the rate of flow (discharge) versus time past a specific point in a river, channel, or conduit carrying flow.
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Hydrology
Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian hog deer
The Indian hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus) is a small deer whose habitat ranges from Pakistan, through northern India, to mainland southeast Asia, which inhabits much of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, southwestern Yunnan Province in China, all the way to western Thailand.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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Indian Plate
The Indian Plate or India Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator in the eastern hemisphere.
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Indra
(Sanskrit: इन्द्र), also known as Devendra, is a Vedic deity in Hinduism, a guardian deity in Buddhism, and the king of the highest heaven called Saudharmakalpa in Jainism.
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Inundation
Inundation (from the Latin inundatio, flood) is both the act of intentionally flooding land that would otherwise remain dry, for military, agricultural, or river-management purposes, and the result of such an act.
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Inwa
Inwa or Ava (or; also spelled Innwa), located in Mandalay Region, Burma (Myanmar), is an ancient imperial capital of successive Burmese kingdoms from the 14th to 19th centuries.
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Irrawaddy Bridge
The Irrawaddy Bridge (Yadanabon) (also Ayeyarwady Bridge, Yadanabon Bridge, Yadanar Pone Bridge or New Ava Bridge) is a bridge in Mandalay, Myanmar.
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Irrawaddy Delta
The Irrawaddy Delta or Ayeyarwady Delta lies in the Irrawaddy Division, the lowest expanse of land in Myanmar that fans out from the limit of tidal influence at Myan Aung to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, 290 km to the south at the mouth of the Ayeyarwady River.
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Irrawaddy dolphin
The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) is a euryhaline species of oceanic dolphin found in discontinuous subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries and rivers in parts of the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia.
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Irrawaddy Flotilla Company
The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company (IFC) was a passenger and cargo ferry company, which operated services on the Irrawaddy River in Burma, now Myanmar.
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Irrigation
Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.
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Kachin State
Kachin State (Kachin: Jingphaw Mungdaw; ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္) is the northernmost state of Myanmar.
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Kansai Electric Power Company
, also known as, is an electric utility with its operational area of Kansai region, Japan (including the Kobe-Osaka-Kyoto megalopolis).
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Katha, Myanmar
Katha is a town in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, on the west side of the Irrawaddy River on a bluff with an average elevation of.
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Kyangin
Kyangin (ကြံခင်းမြို့) is a town in the Ayeyarwady Division of south-west Myanmar.
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Kyaukmyaung (Sagaing)
Kyaukmyaung is a town in Sagaing Division, Myanmar.
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Lava
Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.
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Leatherback sea turtle
The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile behind three crocodilians.
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Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five species in the genus Panthera, a member of the Felidae.
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Lesser sand plover
The lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus) is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
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Letha Taung
Letha Taung, also known as the Singu Plateau, is a small volcanic plateau in central Burma (Myanmar).
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Loggerhead sea turtle
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), or loggerhead, is an oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world.
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Ma-ubin
Ma-ubin or Maubin (မအူပင်) is a town in the Ayeyarwady Division of south-west Burma.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Magway, Myanmar
Magway (မကွေးမြို့) is the capital city of Magway Region (formerly Magway Division) of Myanmar, and situated on the banks of the Irrawaddy River.
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Mali River
The Mali River (Mali Hka) is a river that originates in the hills of Kachin State, in the northern border of Myanmar.
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Mammal
Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.
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Mandalay
Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Myanmar (Burma).
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Mandalay (poem)
Mandalay is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first published in the collection Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses in 1892.
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Mandalay Hill
Mandalay Hill is a hill that is located to the northeast of the city centre of Mandalay in Myanmar.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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Maurice Kottelat
Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (accessed 2014)) is a Swiss ichthyologist specializing in Eurasian freshwater fishes.
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Military dictatorship
A military dictatorship (also known as a military junta) is a form of government where in a military force exerts complete or substantial control over political authority.
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Minbu
Minbu (မင်းဘူးမြို့) is a city in Magwe Division, Myanmar.
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Mingun
Mingun is a town in Sagaing Region, north-west Myanmar (Burma), located 11 km up the Ayeyarwady River on the west bank from Mandalay.
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Mogok
Mogok (မိုးကုတ်,; Shan) is a city in the Pyin Oo Lwin District of the Mandalay Region of Myanmar, located 200 km north of Mandalay and 148 km north-east of Shwebo.
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Monsoon
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
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Mu River
Mu River is a river in upper central Myanmar (Burma), and a tributary of the country's chief river the Ayeyarwady.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Myitkyina
Myitkyina ((Eng; mitchinar) Kachin: Myitkyina) is the capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), located from Yangon, and from Mandalay.
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Myitnge River
Myitnge River (မြစ်ငယ် or Nam Tu, also known as Dokhtawaddy River, is a major tributary of Ayeyarwady River (Irrawaddy) in Myanmar (Burma). The name Myitnge in Burmese and Dokhtawaddy in Pali both mean "little river", by contrast with the Ayeyarwady or "big river".
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Myitsone Dam
The Myitsone Dam (မြစ်ဆုံ တာတမံ; the Confluence Dam) is a large dam and hydroelectric power development project which was planned to be built in Burma (Myanmar).
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N'Mai River
The N'Mai River or N'Mai Hka (မေခမြစ်) is a river in northern Myanmar (Burma).
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Nemacheilidae
The Nemacheilidae, or stone loaches, are a family of cypriniform fishes that inhabit stream environments, mostly in Eurasia, with one genus, Afronemacheilus found in Africa.
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New Light of Myanmar
The New Light of Myanmar (formerly The New Light of Burma) is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in Yangon, Myanmar.
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Nyaung-U
Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့) is the administrative town of Nyaung-U Township of Nyaung-U District in the Mandalay Region of central Myanmar.
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Nyaungdon
Nyaungdon (ညောင်တုန်းမြို့) is a town in the Ayeyarwady Region of south-west Myanmar.
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Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.
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Olive ridley sea turtle
The olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), also known as the Pacific ridley sea turtle, are smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles found in the world, species of sea turtle found in warm and tropical waters, primarily in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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Otter
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.
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Oxbow lake
An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake that forms when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.
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Pakokku
Pakokku (ပခုက္ကူ) is a city in the Magway Region in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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Pakokku Bridge
Pakokku Bridge is a rail and road bridge across the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar's Pakokku town.
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Pali
Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.
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Pantanaw
Pantanaw (ပန်းတနော်မြို့) is a town in the Ayeyarwady Region of south-west Myanmar.
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Pathein
Pathein (ဖာသဳ), formerly called Bassein, is the largest city and the capital of the Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar (Burma).
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Pegu Range
The Pegu Range (ပဲခူးရိုးမ, Pegu Yoma or Bago Yoma) is a range of low mountains or hillsSeekins, Donald M. (2006) Historical dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland,, and uplands between the Irrawaddy and the Sittaung River in central Burma (Myanmar).
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Pine
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.
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Pinophyta
The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.
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Putao
Putao (ပူတာအိုမြို့) is the northernmost town of Kachin State, Myanmar.
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Pyay
Pyay (ပြန်,; also known as Prome and Payagyi) is principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar.
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Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.
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Rakhine State
Rakhine State (Rakhine pronunciation;; formerly Arakan) is a state in Myanmar (Burma).
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Rapids
Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.
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Ravi River
The Ravi (ਰਾਵੀ, راوی, रावी) is a transboundary river crossing northwestern India and eastern Pakistan.
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Red junglefowl
The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) is a tropical member of the family Phasianidae.
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Rhododendron
Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
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Richter magnitude scale
The so-called Richter magnitude scale – more accurately, Richter's magnitude scale, or just Richter magnitude – for measuring the strength ("size") of earthquakes refers to the original "magnitude scale" developed by Charles F. Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, and later revised and renamed the Local magnitude scale, denoted as "ML" or "ML".
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Sagaing
Sagaing is the capital of Sagaing Region (formerly Sagaing Division).
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Saltwater crocodile
The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), also known as the estuarine crocodile, Indo-Pacific crocodile, marine crocodile, sea crocodile or informally as saltie, is the largest of all living reptiles, as well as the largest riparian predator in the world.
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Salween River
The Salween, known in China as the Nu River, is a river about long that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.
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Sambar deer
The sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, southern China, and Southeast Asia that is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2008.
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Sea turtle
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
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Shweli River
Shweli River (ရွှေလီမြစ်; 瑞丽江) is a river in Myanmar (Burma).
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Silt
Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay, whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar.
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Sittaung River
The Sittaung (စစ်တောင်းမြစ်; formerly, the Sittang or Sittoung) is a river in south central Myanmar in Bago Division.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
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Species description
A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper.
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Spot-billed pelican
The spot-billed pelican or grey pelican (Pelecanus philippensis) is a member of the pelican family.
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Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Subtropics
The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.
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Sven O. Kullander
Sven Oscar Kullander (born 30 November 1952 in Sollefteå) is a Swedish biologist specialised in ichthyology.
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Swamp
A swamp is a wetland that is forested.
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Tagaung, Mandalay
Tagaung is a town in Mandalay Region of Myanmar (Burma).
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Tamanthi
Tamanthi, Htamanthi or Tamanthe is a village on the Chindwin River in Homalin Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma.
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Tanintharyi Region
Tanintharyi Region (တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး,; Mon: or; Tanah Sari; formerly Tenasserim Division and subsequently Tanintharyi Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, covering the long narrow southern part of the country on the Kra Isthmus.
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Taping River
The Taping River, known as Ta Hkaw Hka in Kachin and Daying River in Chinese, is a river in Yunnan province, China and northern Myanmar (Burma).
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Tasang Dam
The Tasang Dam (တာဆန်းဆည်), also known as the Mong Ton Dam, is a planned multi-purpose dam on the Salween River in the Shan State, Myanmar.
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Teak
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species placed in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a 1972 non-fiction book on heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia and the CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.
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Tibet
Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.
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Tillage
Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning.
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Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.
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Undescribed taxon
In taxonomy, an undescribed taxon is a taxon (for example, a species) that has been discovered, but not yet formally described and named.
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Union Solidarity and Development Association
The Union Solidarity and Development Association (abbreviated USDA) was a Burmese political party founded with the active aid of Myanmar's ruling military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), on 15 September 1993.
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Upper Myanmar
Upper Burma (အထက်မြန်မာပြည်, also called Real Myanmar) refers to a geographic region of Burma (Myanmar), traditionally encompassing Mandalay and its periphery (modern Mandalay, Sagaing, Magway Regions), or more broadly speaking, Kachin and Shan States.
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Valley
A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.
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Volcanology
Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma, and related geological, geophysical and geochemical phenomena.
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West Rapti River
West Rapti drains Rapti Zone in Mid-Western Region, Nepal, then Awadh and Purvanchal regions of Uttar Pradesh state, India before joining the Ghaghara -- a major left bank tributary of the Ganges known as the Karnali inside Nepal.
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Whiskered tern
The whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) is a tern in the family Laridae.
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Wild boar
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine,Heptner, V. G.; Nasimovich, A. A.; Bannikov, A. G.; Hoffman, R. S. (1988), Volume I, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, pp.
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Wood sandpiper
The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Yangon
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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Yangon River
The Yangon River (also known as the Rangoon River or Hlaing River) is formed by the confluence of the Pegu and Myitmaka rivers in Myanmar.
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Yenangyaung
Yenangyaung (ရေနံချောင်း; literally "stream of oil") is a city in Myanmar, Magway Division.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrawaddy_River